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INVENTOR ATTORNEY J. KELLER;

Patented Sept. 26, 1882.

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TAG 0R TICKET, NUMBER PRINTING PRESS.

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J. KELLER.

TAG 0R TICKET NUMBER PRINTING PRESS. 101.

Patented Sept. 26, 1882;

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JOHN KELLEB, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TAG OR TICKET NUMBER PRINTING PRESS SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters-Patent No. 265,101, dated September 26,

Application filed Maren 29, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN KELLER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented, an Improved Tag or Ticket Number Printing Press, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being. had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My inventionrelates to a press or machine for printing successively upon each one of a series of tags or tickets on a strip or ribbon a designated number or other matter; andmy invention consists in the combination, in such a press, of the devices hereinafter set forth and described,

ticket, as hereinafter specified.

Figure l is a front end elevation of a press or machine containing my invention, the forward part of the frame being cut away and shown partly in vertical section, disclosing the operating mechanism. Fig. 2, is a plan of the press. Fig. 3 is a side elevatiouot' the same in vertical section, and Fig. 4 is a view in detail of a strip or ribbon of tags or tickets adapted to be printed in my improved press.

The object of my invention is to enable a number or other matter to be printed successively, and with rapidity and precision as to locality, upon each oneof a series of tags or tickets on a strip or ribbon, and more particularly to enable this to be done on the tags or tickets which are the subject matter of my application for Letters Patent for tags or tickets for garments for use by tailors in making completed garments, filed January 11, 1882.

A is the frame of the machine, composed of the base a, the sides a, and the end pieces, a and with the bar a fixed on the frame and extending horizontally longitudinally of the machine from one end piece a to the other, as shown in Fig. 2.

B is the lower feed-roller, mounted on shaft 1), having suitable bearings in the sides of the frame. 0 is the upper feed-roller on shaft 0, having hearings in the frame, as shown. The two rollers are geared together, as shown. The machine is operated preferably bya crank on the end of the upper roller-shaft, as shown. Upon the face of the rollerU is the segmental whereby the result named is ac-, complished with rapidity and with precision as to the locality of the number on each ta g or.

the face of the roller, and is of a length circum-.

ferentially of the roller equal substantially to the width of the tag or ticket which isto be printed upon and projects from the roller-face, so that its exterior face will, when brought opposite to the face of the lower roller, be in contact, ornearly so, with said face of the lower roller. The upper and lower rollers are of such a relative diameter that a radius drawn Pto the surface of the projection c of the upper roller will be equal to a radius drawn to the face of the lower roller. By this means a'strip or ribbon of tickets passed between the feedrollers will be fed the distance of the width of gone ticket by the projection c and the lower 'roller, at each revolution of the rollers, and will lieatrest on the lower roller during the remainder of eachsuch revolution. A table or guide, D, which may be adjustable, on which the strip may be passedflatwise to the rollers, is preferably employed in connection with a guide-groove, E, into which the edge of the strip is laid in feeding the strip to the machine.

The type or equivalent with which the printingis done are set in a recess, 0 in the face of the roller 0, and a set-screw, 0 is provided to hold them in place. They project from the face of G to a height substantially the same as I that of c, and they are fixed in their recess at such a point relatively to the length of c as will cause them to imprint upon the ticket at the predetermined and desired locality-as, for instance, either near the top, the center, or the bottom of the ticket.

At F is an ink-roller for inking the type, which may be operated by a belt, as shown.

At G is an arm or plate, which slides transversely of the machine in an opening or way in the frame of the machine, asshown, and projects into and part way across the path of the strip of tickets as said strip comes from the rollers. It is placed relatively to the rollers so that the vertical median line of its face adjacent to the rollers is substantially opposite the point where the heel of the feed-projection 0 leaves the face of the lower roller. It then it back in its recess or wayout of the path of the ticket, and this can] is arranged. relatively to the feed-projection c on the upper roller, so that when the said projection begins to move the ticket forward between the rollers at each revolution thereof the cam y will carry the arm Gr back outot' the tickets path, and will hold it there while the ticket is fed forward the distance of its width, and when the ticket is released from the rollers and its forward movement ceases will allow the arm G to again be projected forward. In place of the spring ga separate cam, giving a positive forward movement to the arm G, may be employed. Now, it is evident that a strip of tags or ticketssuch as is shown at Fig. 4 of the drawings having notches cut in the edge of the strip intermediate the tickets, (said notches being coniormable in outline to the projeetingface of G,) will on being fed to the described machinebe passed forward by the projection c and roller B the distance of the width of each ticket successively at each revolution of the rollers, and will be printed upon by the type on the roller 0, the arm G being drawn back outof the path of the strip while the strip is thus moving, and said arm beingprojeeted into one of the notches between the tickets in the edge of the strip the moment that the ticket-stripis released by the feed, and there remaining, holding the strip in the position in which it is left by the feed at the completion of the printing upon one ticket, and during the remainder of the revolution of the feed-rollers, and thus presenting it to the feed at the next revolution thereof in the same position as that which it was left in by thefeed at the preceding revolution; and it is evident that, this operation of the parts being continuous during the printing of the entire strip, the

type will print with rapidity and precision as to locality of theprinted matter on each ticket on all the ticketsof the strip.

This machine is intended to be operated by hand and to be used in printing the lot number or similar matter upon each of the tags or tickets used by tailorsin marking garments, said tags or tickets being first printed in succession on a strip or ribbon of paper or analogous material. It will thus do away with the slow and laborious practice of stamping these numbers on such tickets by hand.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a tag-printing machine, the combination, with the feed and printing mechanism, substantially as described, of the adjustable side guide on'the table, and the transversely-reciprocating varm G, operating through slotted guide E as a stop for the notched tag-strip,-as specified.

JOHN KELLER. Witnesses A. S. FITCH,

- HENRY EIGHLING. 

